What Kind of King? Mark 8:1–10
A king who cruelly kills or a king who compassionately cares?
“How many loaves do you have?” (Mark 8: 5). Jesus does not ask you to resolve all the problems of the world. But as your King he determines the nature of his kingdom. He asks you to have deep and sincere feelings for the needs of the world, to see this faceless mob of humanity... Continue Reading
Reading the Psalter as a Book
“This is the story that no one but the redeemed can sing, so let us engage in tuning our voices to the language of the Psalms ."
The Psalter poetically retells the story of Israel in a way that assures its reader that YHWH directs human history, the entirety of human experience is accounted for, a new Davidic king will return, and a new Zion will accompany him. Each of these perspectives is present throughout Scripture, but they are all enhanced when... Continue Reading
Matthew 1: God with Us in Covenant and Crisis
Out of love for his creation, God wrote himself into the play. The crisis is the reason for Christ’s coming.
“God with us” is more than a nice Christmasy slogan; it is a shocking metaphysical claim. God—infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth—with us—creatures who are definitively not infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in our being (We get old.), wisdom (Are we all wise?), power (We get weak.), holiness... Continue Reading
Letter to a Progressive Christian: Why You Need to Believe in an Infallible Bible
Jesus’ view of scripture must be our view of scripture. If we believe Jesus is wrong, then at whatever point we depart, we’re no longer his disciples.
If one rejects the inspiration of scripture, but still wants to claim to be a Christian, now you’re left with an epistemological dilemma. How can you possibly know what parts of the Bible are inspired and to be believed and obeyed, and which parts can be dismissed? Every solution will be to place yourself or... Continue Reading
A Devotional on the Excellency of Christ Seen in Christmas by Jonathan Edwards
The way in which Edwards gets us to see the complementary sides of the incarnation is subtle and masterful.
Christ’s incarnation was a greater and more wonderful thing than ever had yet come to pass. The creation of the world was a very great thing, but not so great as the incarnation of Christ. It was a great thing for God to make the creature, but not so great as for the Creator himself... Continue Reading
Why Is Nature Intelligible?
The very essence of a scientific explanation of some phenomenon is that the world is ordered logically and that there are reasons things are as they are.
We’re able to comprehend the natural world because God made human beings in his image (Gen. 1:27). We’re rational beings made in the image of a rational God, able to make sense of the logical structuring of the universe. Johannes Kepler expressed this interconnectedness of the natural order, human reason, and the divine mind when... Continue Reading
What If Church Were Historically and Spiritually Rooted Instead of Following a Fad?
We must make room for the creeds, communion, and the moving of the Spirit.
The gathering of the church must be carried out according to God’s revealed will. We want to worship God in the way He has prescribed as best as we can. We should acknowledge, however, that “The New Testament does not provide us with officially sanctioned public ‘services’ so much as with examples of crucial elements.”... Continue Reading
Social Justice?
If you dissent from their (usually Leftist and often neo-Marxist) analysis or solutions, you are not only unjust but also unloving and unChristlike, and probably a heretic to boot.
By calling your scheme for social improvement a matter of “social justice,” you imply that doing something else, or doing nothing, would be unjust. Hence, if I, on purely prudential grounds, prefer a different solution to the problem (or think you have misidentified the problem in the first place), I am preemptively labeled a proponent... Continue Reading
Can I Passionately Follow Jesus and Not Care About Good Doctrine?
Only in knowing who God is can we have that deep, abiding, lasting affection for God.
If a Christian is really intent on following God, knowing God, and they’re fired up and want to be passionate about God, don’t make the mistake of thinking that doctrine and head knowledge is the opposite of passionate heart knowledge. The real heart affection that’s going to burn bright and is going to last must... Continue Reading
Woke Right?
On an empty catch phrase.
The label Woke Right can easily be applied to anyone on the right because it is an empty and vacuous descriptor with no objective content. It is simply based on a vague, but very negative, association with the Woke Left. And that, in the end, appears to be the main impetus behind its use: it... Continue Reading
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